30 years ago today, #PGP 2.6 was released via MIT.
Up to this point, two major issues had been unresolved: The legal status of the use of RSA in PGP, and export of the software from the US to the rest of the world.
With the release of PGP 2.6, the first of these two issues was resolved.
The pre-history of #OpenPGP, #gpg, #gnupg is hard to imagine, today. Even though variations of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars remain a (tiringly) recurring political battle ground, three decades later.
Heiko /
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2024-05-26 10:00:17
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2024-05-26 10:00:17Event JSON
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